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When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

Too much liberty corrupts us all.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.